Hitzfeld didn't care whether he recognized these things or not. He raised his trembling hand and grabbed a dark purple fruit. He brought it to his mouth with some difficulty, fell on the bed and took a bite.
The taste is similar to kiwi fruit, with the sweet and sour juice bursting in the mouth.
She didn't let a drop of juice fall onto the bed sheets. She just sucked and ate the fruit until it was completely gone.
Something fell into my stomach, and the feeling of extreme weakness was finally curbed.
Strength rose from his body little by little, Hitzfeld completely threw off the quilt and stood up, but his knees went weak and he fell to the ground with a thud.
The noise was loud enough that someone immediately came running in from outside. It was the red-haired nurse, De Leyeman.
"You're awake!" Lu Xier looked at her lying on the ground in surprise, and immediately ran out again, "Wait here for a moment, I'll go call the doctor! And the others!"
What the fuck...
Even with her upbringing as a young girl, she couldn't help but swear at this moment.
Can't you help me up before you go and call for help?
Before trying, Hitzfeld had not expected that the consequence of multiple negative states overlapping would make her lie on the ground and unable to get up.
Her strength had returned but it was limited, she hadn't felt anything when she was sitting on the bed, but now she was trying to stand up... It was also the first time she felt how heavy she was.
There were quick footsteps outside the door.
"Oh! You're messing around!"
The most direct scolding sounds like heavenly music to the ears.
Maybe this is how seriously ill patients see their doctors.
A strong force clamped her arms and shoulders, pulled her back to the bed, pressed her onto the pillow and covered her with the quilt again.
The person who came was undoubtedly Sixus.
The mixed-haired loli picked up the IV needle, checked it, took out a black leather box, took out a box of new needles from it, and inserted them into her vagina, looking at the catheter with some disgust.
"Since you're awake, I won't give you this."
"Thanks, Connie," Hitzfeld said.
The voice sounds very hoarse, and anyone who can tell the difference will think it is that of a seriously ill patient.
"It is very rare for a Devourer to overdraw his physical strength... Honestly speaking, if you hadn't merged with the Nature Orb and had your vitality replenished by the artifact once, I doubt you would have survived this time."
"But I survived." Hitzfeld twitched his lips. "I slept for a few days."
"Almost a week."
"Ah... that's really unprecedented."
I felt a chill in my heart, it seemed that the vitality I had overdrawn this time was not a small amount.
But it was not a big problem. As long as the case was closed and the Nature Orb was retrieved - after testing, that thing seemed to be bound to her, and no one else could integrate it with her - her body functions would gradually be restored by the artifact.
"Don't get in the way here... Is she awake!?"
There was a commotion outside.
Only a moment later, Xia Yibing, with her ponytail tied up again, rushed into the cabin with a new look and looked at the girl with surprise on her face.
Hitzfeld looked at her carefully and found that she had changed into a pair of tight black leather trousers.
It's not reflective, so it might be shark skin, which is cut from a diving suit... She was wearing a pair of women's high-top mid-heeled leather boots and a simple white sailor shirt on her upper body. The hem was tied in the middle, revealing her curvy waist and belly button.
With this outfit, you can wear my eye patch and play the role of a pirate captain...
"call!"
Without waiting for Hitzfeld to think more, Xia Yibing threw herself directly onto the bed, tightened her hands and feet through the quilt, and imprisoned her like an octopus.
"..." Hitzfeld looked helplessly at the mixed-haired loli next to him.
Sixus spread his hands: "I explained it to her, but it was useless."
"Really?" The girl frowned.
No matter how much Xia cares about me, he shouldn't have lost his composure after I woke up. This means that something must have gone wrong with my budget.
Combined with what Sixus said before, "rare overdraft"...
"Let me ask you something," she suddenly said, "I was in the tunnel, how far did I crawl?"
"Climb as far as you can."
Sixus answered.
At this time, there was another commotion outside, mixed with Lu Xi'er's explanation. She was responsible for blocking idlers at the door.
"What do you mean by the limit distance?"
"It's not the limit of your body, but the limit of the environment." This time it was Xia Yibing who answered. She stared into the girl's eyes and sniffed, "You crawled through 2-3 tunnels. Connie found you just after Lily dragged me down. You almost carried me to the cave we found at the beginning!"
what……
The girl suddenly realized.
No wonder the consumption is so high.
She calculated that her consciousness and body had been separated since she started to hear the auditory hallucinations, that is, from the moment she saw the retrospective projection.
The consciousness is immersed in the light and shadow pictures, while the body repeats the mechanical labor.
When she came to her senses, her body had already dragged Xia Yibing for a long distance.
No wonder Xia reacted like this.
She must have been extremely panicked at the time, but no matter how she called me, I didn't respond, and finally I just fell asleep in front of her.
If the roles were reversed, I wouldn't be very calm either.
"Ow!"
"Lily——"
The barking of dogs mixed with the scolding of the young nurse. A white shadow rushed in, and when it saw the girl on the bed, it quickly approached her, raised its front paws and wanted to pounce on her.
As a result, Xia Yibing kicked him back.
"Woo!"
Poor Lily had to stand by the bed with her ears drooping, and only the wagging tail proved that she was pretending.
Then Ms. Feti, Dai Lin and a few others broke through the blockade together. They couldn't feel at ease until they saw with their own eyes that the girl was fine.
"As long as he's fine, that's all." Sixus finally got impatient. "Are you guys serious? Don't you know that the best way to visit is to not get in the way?"
After both Fetti and the female knight expressed their condolences, Sixus simply drove everyone away, leaving only Xia Yibing and Lily in the cabin, using the excuse that the patient still needed care.
"What are you thinking about?"
When he came back and saw Hitzfeld staring at the ceiling in a daze, Xia Yibing was sitting beside the bed peeling fruit for her, Xixus asked casually.
"If you're worried about revealing anything when you're rescued... I've wrapped both of you in blankets in advance."
"I wonder why the fleet didn't go back."
"..."
"..."
As soon as these words came out, Xixus's expression changed, and Xia Yibing stopped peeling the fruit.
"We should go back."
Hitzfeld continued.
"Considering the distance and situation, returning for supplies and organizing more people to explore is the best option."
"But it seems you didn't do that...otherwise I would be lying in the chapel right now."
"So I guess you must have discovered something extra... It's so important that you have to stay here."
"I really admire Xia Sha for being able to tolerate being with you."
Sixus rolled his eyes at her.
"Aisun isn't usually like this..."
Xia Yibing tried hard to defend the girl.
"Come on! I don't want to know your private affairs!"
Sixus covered his ears and turned his back, continuing to shout: "Anyway, she has guessed it herself, so what are you waiting for?"
"…Why not just open it and show it to her!"
What to look at?
Hitzfeld looked at the woman and saw her stand up and climb up - without pressing herself down, she reached out to the cabin wall and lifted up a wooden board that was stuck there.
Orange-yellow light poured down from the gaps.
Hitzfeld adjusted himself for a while, then looked out the window and saw a cliff about fifty meters ahead - there was a scaffolding there, with some people hanging on it, busy with something.
"While you were asleep, Xiasha told Bill and me everything that happened to you."
Sixus added an explanation.
"Most people didn't believe it, but Bill and I supported you. At his insistence, we used explosives - we went around the cape and tried to blow it up, and found the missing people inside."
"The missing person..."
"These are the children who jumped into the sea and disappeared in the past month."
Speaking of this, Sixus' tone was very melancholy.
"They're all dead."
"Only bones remain."
"It's wrapped in follicles."
Chapter 39: Biological Fallacies 2-in-1
After waking up, Hitzfeld fully demonstrated to everyone what the Devourer is and what the Devourer's super recovery ability is.
In less than half a day, she was able to walk normally. When Bill brought people to see her in the evening, they found nothing. Lu Hill told her that "they have been put on the shelf."
He climbed up the shelf panting and carefully entered a cave excavated in the rock. As soon as he entered, Bill immediately felt a cold and damp air eroding his skin.
This is the uniqueness of the Sea Cliff Caves. It is said that many death cells are built in similar places. Prisoners are locked in the caves and cannot escape or hide. They are exposed to the tides every day, coupled with the biting cold and damp. Even if they survive to be released, their hands and feet joints will be disabled.
If possible, Bill didn't want to stay here for a second. He asked someone to find out the direction of the target, found the fork in the middle and went down. At a glance, he saw the gray-haired girl surrounded in the middle, who seemed to be checking the things they dug out.
As for what those “things” are…
Pursing his lips and trying hard to suppress the discomfort in his heart, Bill looked up at the wall, and his eyes were filled with blue light.
That's a wall of follicles.
The huge follicles, each as big as an axle, were embedded in the regular holes and cavities, reflecting blue light under the illumination of the torches.
This dense sight alone was enough to make people uncomfortable, but what really made Bill tremble was the things wrapped in the follicles.
That's people.
A closer look revealed that each follicle contained a human skeleton. They were all young, around 17 or 18 years old, curled up in their follicles like babies, with their eyes closed, as if they were soundly asleep.
Strictly speaking, it is not appropriate to judge them as "corpses" because they are not dead and their heartbeats and pulses can still be detected.
But it is difficult to identify them as the original "humans" because they are mutating - they are being transformed by follicles, and the deeper they sink, the less human-like their bones are.
"I've been an autopsy examiner all my life, and I've never seen anything like this."
This is Mr. Hughley, the coroner Bill brought with him, complaining to the girl.
"If this is an evil spirit, an evil seed, or more directly, the egg sheath of a nightmare, I wouldn't be surprised, because everything that happens to those monsters is normal."
"But they are not - Miss Hitzfeld, they are not evil species. Do you understand how terrible this is? They are pure, naturally born natural life forms. The methods that can work on evil spirits cannot deal with them. This is simply overturning everything I have learned in my life!"
"Do you think they are still human?" Hitzfeld asked him with great respect.
"Definitely not." Hughley shook his head.
"Why are you sure?"
